Heinz Kluetmeier

Then in the final turn, only 20 meters from the finish line, Ohno and archrival Li Jiajun of China tangled arms. Li, last year's world champion in the 1,000, spun out of the race, but just as Ohno seemed to recover his footing, he was sent sprawling into the boards along with Canada's Mathieu Turcotte by a slip-sliding, bespectacled, 16-year-old Korean named Ahn Hyun-Soo. Forget roller derby: This looked like a four-car pileup at Daytona. Ohno crawled his way across the finish line, followed by [Mathieu Turcotte's] frantically executed baseball slide.

-from "Speed Thrills" by S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated, Feb. 25, 2002